The second BRICS competition in the field of water resources, water treatment, and pollution control involved all five member countries. This project aimed to develop an efficient method to reduce costs and energy consumption in water treatment equipment using membrane layers. This technology enabled the purification of water and recovery of organic and inorganic materials in remote areas, rivers, seas, urban wastewater, and agricultural and industrial effluents. Following the completion of this project, several further collaborations in this field emerged among the consortium member countries.
| Call Number | Second BRICS STI Framework Programme Call, 2017 | |
| Project Code and Acronym | BRICS2017-517 “From Waste to Resources” | |
| Country | Research Institutions | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|
🇧🇷 Brazil |
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | Andrea Moura Bernardes |
🇷🇺 Russia |
A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis- RAS | Alexey Volkov |
🇮🇳 India |
CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute | Swachchha Majumdar |
🇨🇳 China |
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute-CAS | Tao He |
🇿🇦 South Africa |
University of South Africa | Lueta-Ann de Kock |
| Funding Agencies | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq), Russian Center for Scientific Information (RCSI), Department of Science & Technology of India (DST), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) | |
In 2021, the five teams from the previous project launched a new initiative called “Drug-Free Wastewater” as part of the fifth call, which was approved and received funding. The aim of this project was to remove antibiotics from wastewater using membrane technology.
| Call Number | Fifth BRICS STI Framework Programme Call, 2021 | |
| Project Code and Acronym | BRICS2021-358 “Drug-Free Wastewater” | |
| Country | Research Institutions | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|
🇧🇷 Brazil |
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | Salatiel Wohlmuth da Silva |
🇷🇺 Russia |
A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis- RAS | Alexey Volkov |
🇮🇳 India |
CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute | Sourja Ghosh |
🇨🇳 China |
Zhejiang University | Lin Zhang |
🇿🇦 South Africa |
University of South Africa | Tshepo Malefetse |
| Funding Agencies | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq), Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia (MSHE), Department of Science & Technology of India (DST), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) | |
